Create the REEF-association Link in Blackboard. Select your REEF course and open the course settings by clicking the Edit button on your REEF Instructor dashboard or click the gear icon in the side panel.
The following window will appears: Select the LMS Sync tab on the side panel. Click Copy Link Click OK.
Open your Blackboard course s home page and make sure that Edit Mode is set to ON. Select Build Content to reveal a drop-down menu. Then select Web Link under the Create section of this menu.
Complete the Web Link Information section: Name: REEF Polling (recommended) URL: (paste the URL copied from your REEF course settings) This link is to a Tool Provider: selected Enable Evaluation: Yes Points Possible: (total points all REEF sessions will be worth in your course) Complete the Description section (optional) Click this link to launch a special instance of REEF, then log in or create a new REEF account if you don t already have one. Signing into REEF through this link will allow me to synchronize your REEF scores with this Blackboard course. IMPORTANT: Do not include any line breaks in the description section as this will cause the link to not work. This a known issue with Blackboard. Click Submit to complete the tool set-up for your course.
A REEF Polling icon will now appear on the Home Page of your course. Direct your students to use the REEF-association link. Students need to sign in to their Blackboard course and use the link you created to sign in to their REEF account or create a new account if they don t already have one. Using the Blackboard link automatically adds your course to the student s account; the student won t have to search for your course to join it. Students only need to use the REEF-association link once to allow you to sync their score. Once the association is made, students may choose to go directly to the REEF website or use the mobile app to use REEF. Returning students choosing to use the REEF-association link in Blackboard will be automatically logged into REEF through single sign-on (SSO) and taken directly to your REEF course page.
REEF Grade Sync with Blackboard Access your REEF Instructor account and click Launch Gradebook to synchronize your scores.
Once you've been taken to the online gradebook, click Sync Scores to LMS. The green dot next to each student in the LMS Connection Column indicates that the student have used the REEF-association link within Blackboard.
Once you sync the scores, it will give you the date of the last synchronization of the scores to Blackboard. The Total column of the student gradebook is the one that will be synched to Blackboard.
To see the REEF polling column in Blackboard, log in to your Blackboard course and Click on Full Grade Center on the side toolbar and you will find the REEF Polling column.
How scores sync to Blackboard REEF score totals are synced to Blackboard as percentages normalized to the points you defined in Blackboard. While points in REEF are built up from zero, the scores in Blackboard start at the maximum number of points and are updated every time a sync is performed. EXAMPLE: Halfway through the term, an instructor has run 20 polling sessions worth a total of 160 points. In Blackboard, the instructor defined the REEF Polling grade item to be worth 50 points for their course. A student with a REEF score of 120 points will show a Blackboard score of 37.5 points when syncing scores. REEF: (120 pts earned) / (160 pts possible) = 0.75 LMS: (0.75)(50 pts possible) = 37.5 pts earned
Even though the percentage shown in REEF is shown as an integer, the synchronized percentage retains greater precision so that the Blackboard score is converted accurately. EXAMPLE: After the first week of class, an instructor has run sessions worth a total of 6 points. In Blackboard, the instructor defined the REEF Polling grade item to be worth 100 points for their course. A student with a REEF score of 5 points will show a REEF percentage of 83%, but the conversion in Blackboard displays 83.33. REEF: (5 pts earned) / (6 pts possible) = 0.8333 or 83% when rounded LMS: (0.8333)(100 pts possible) = 83.33 pts earned
Note: Whenever you sync your scores from REEF to Blackboard, you also send an email reminder to any student who has not yet used the REEFassociation link within Blackboard. You can turn this option off in the LMS Sync tab of your REEF Instructor Course Settings by unchecking the box.